Our Stories From The Beginning

4025 Paddock Rd. Suite 509, Cincinnati, CA 45229

WELCOME

Black Folks Make Movies, a privately owned, 501(c)(3), is committed to the examination of Black film history through images portrayed in film, via education, the promotion of past & current independent filmmakers of color and the preservation of contributions by Black American filmmakers. Through this prism of Black American movie history we examine the emergence and impact of Black Americans, the creative reaction to widespread racism, via film, during the first half of the 20th century, and the vitality of Black entertainment and culture across the country, inclusive of this period and beyond.

GALLERY

A PICTURE'S WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS

F2B Film Festival Series

Beginnings...

Most Americans are unaware of the major contributions Black Americans have made in film. FADE2BLACK A Retrospective Celebrating Black American Film, 1910 - the Present, affords us this long overdue exploration into this history.

MIDNIGHT RAMBLE

Oscar Micheaux and the Story of Race Movies is a 1994 PBS documentary on the early history of Black American film from 1910 to 1950. The FOUNDATION of the who, what, where and why of Black American cinema. Considered the lynchpin in the study of Black film history.